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deducted from the scholar's hours of employment, and that any employer who attempts to increase his employee's hours of work to make up for this deduction will be liable to a heavy fine.
Spratley Islands (see also paragraph 135).
153. The question of the administration of these islands, which were recently annexed by Japan (see paragraph 86), is said to be now under consideration, and according to the Japanese press the occasion will be taken to formulate a more definite policy in regard to Japan's southward development. Formosa, the Japanese Mandated Islands and the Spratley Islands are, it seems, to form one administrative group under the direction of a high official with the resounding title of Governor-General of the South. This is said to be the proposal of General Koiso, the new Overseas Minister, but there are alternative proposals under consideration. Colour is lent to this story by the reported recent arrival in Tokyo of the Director-General of Formosa and the Governor of the Mandated Islands, and the impending arrival of the Governor-General of Formosa. A less credible story advanced by the Nichi Nichi is that control over the Japanese residents in the Philippines, the Netherlands East Indies, French Indo-China and Singapore will be assumed by a new Governor-General to be created for that purpose.
Tokyo's Population.
154. It is claimed that Tokyo is now the second largest city in the world. According to police investigations, the population last December was 6,820,523, an increase of 184,957 over the preceding December's figure. There is now one policeman to every 915 people.
Tokyo's New Mayor.
155. Mr. Kobashi has resigned his post as Mayor of Tokyo and Mr. Keikichi Tanomogi, a veteran member of the Miñseito, who was Minister of Communica- tions in the Hirota Government, has taken his place.
An Ounce of Illustration.
156. Mr. Tatsuo Kawai, Director of the Information Bureau of the Gaimusho, recently paid a visit to Shanghai. The Kokumin Shimbun reports that, at a dinner party given for him by a number of old Chinese acquaintances of the days when he was a consul-general there, he urged on the Chinese the advisability of co-operating with Japan. "In order to effect East Asiatic co-ordination," he said, "Japan and China must be naked in their minds. He then divested himself of his clothes and proceeded to execute a naked dance before his Chinese hosts. The dance was heartily applauded and since then, the newspaper concludes, Mr. Kawai's popularity with the Chinese has been greatly enhanced.
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157. From an address made by the spokesman of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs to the delegation of German newspaper men which recently visited Japan: The invisible supreme spirit of the universe has commanded us to establish regional autonomies.'
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